I was expecting something more unique/inspirational from something that involved A.R Rahman, who makes amazing music, and from watching about a minute of the (long and rambling) 5 minute intro video on their site.<p>It's basically just a Pinterest clone that doesn't even autoload additional content when you reach the bottom of the page (you have to click a "Load more content" button for some reason). I don't see any reason why anyone would want to join this. There's some kind of rating system called, weirdly, an "Emobar" that is basically a series of colors that reflect people's rating of your post.<p>Also, I had to watch the intro video to figure out how to even pronounce that domain name (I was thinking "Qu-you-kee" or maybe even "Quickie" but the founder says it differently in the video).
Qyuki's homepage takes more than 5 minutes to load. It has a size of more than 12MB. There was a 3 MB uncompressed image right on the Homepage. Whoever made this website really needs some optimization lessons<p>PS : I lost interest after 5 minutes, It might take longer and also have a bigger size<p>here is a pingdom analysis <a href="http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/q215oLm5R/qyuki.com" rel="nofollow">http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/q215oLm5R/qyuki.com</a>
And it is not optimized for mobile. I am really surprised - India in country of mobiles!<p>One thing, this will be an interesting case study if content can win over usability, particularly in my country (India). It can become a celebrity site.
Funded by cisco, and Rs. 27cr/$5million. (<a href="http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-02-15/news/31063274_1_shekhar-kapur-cisco-systems-ventures" rel="nofollow">http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-02-15/news...</a>)
I don't get it. The copy is confusing to me. I'm not knocking on the startup, but I want to understand what it is about and get their focus. I just don't. Will anyone from qyuki please explain it like I were five years old? Thank you.<p>PS. Also, how do you pronounce the name/web address?
Ideally Qyuki should have built tools that helps creativity and the presence of celebs to inspire, I have seen hardly anyone who gets inspired by celebrities.
Before you start knocking it too much, check out the inspirations tab.<p>I love that idea, a community that's inspiring each other to create and share.<p>Admittedly the overall implementation needs work. But it looks pretty good and the point of it seems to be to be to inspire and encourage people to create rather than share others work.